Severe Ebola Virus Infection with Encephalopathy: Evidence for Direct Virus Involvement

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1627-1628

  Sagui, Emmanuel ^a,b,c   Janvier, Frédéric ^d   Baize, Sylvain ^e,f,g   Foissaud, Vincent ^h   Koulibaly, Fassou ⁱ   Savini, Hélène ^a   Maugey, Nancy ^j   Aletti, Marc ^h   Granier, Hervé ^k   Carmoi, Thierry ^l  

^a LAVERAN MILITARY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c University of Val de Grâce   (France)

^d Military Teaching Hospital Sainte Anne   (France)

^e National Reference Center for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers   (France)

^f Institut Pasteur   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^h Department of Biology   (France)

ⁱ Guinean Military Health Services   (Guinea)

^j Bordeaux Consortium for Regenerative Medicine   (France)

^k Military Teaching Hospital Clermont Tonnerre   (France)

^l University of Paris Descartes   (France)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MENINGITIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPLICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; VIRAL LOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947707252     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ606     Document Type: Letter

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